Mum’s huge call after train station horror

The distraught mother whose husband and child were killed when they were hit by a train in Sydney last week has made a heartbreaking decision about her future.

Poonam Runwal and husband Anand, 40, stepped out of a lift at Carlton train station in the city’s south last Sunday when the pram carrying their twin daughters rolled onto the tracks.

Mr Runwal leapt off the platform but was struck by an oncoming train.

Anand and one of the two-year-old girls, Hinal, were killed. The other child had a miraculous escape.

Ms Runwal, who was hospitalised alongside her second child, were reportedly at risk of deportation as her husband was in the process of trying to renew his working visa.

He had worked for IT form Infosys in North Sydney and it had been reported that the visa was due to expire as early as April 1.

However, Ms Runwal has now made the decision to return to India permanently.

She will leave Australia as early as next week.

Friends of the family told the Daily Mail, Ms Runwal would repatriate the bodies to India.

“The family wants to bring Anand and Hinal home as soon as possible.” they said. “They’ve started working through the formalities – it’s chaotic and there is so much to be done.

“But they’ll be leaving as soon as they can so they can hold the funerals back in India.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had refused to say if Ms Runwal and her daughter would be allowed to remain in Australia.

He said that it was a matter for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles added he expected the situation would be treated with “compassion”.

“This mother has watched as her husband and

one of her twin children has tragically lost their life and I would have thought that we’re a generous country and that Australians’ hearts will go out towards this woman and her young child,” Mr Albanese said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said the father had died performing “an extraordinary instinctive act of bravery”.

“That’s not going to bring him or his little daughter back but it shouldn’t go unremarked upon that in the face of a terrible accident he gave his own life to try to save his children,” he said.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said the father had died performing “an extraordinary instinctive act of bravery”.

“That’s not going to bring him or his little daughter back but it shouldn’t go unremarked upon that in the face of a terrible accident he gave his own life to try to save his children”.

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